Yemen Population Pyramid 2025
Yemen in 2025
As of 2025, Yemen counted 41,773,878 inhabitants. A decade earlier, in 2015, the population was 31,159,379; it has grown by 34.1% since.
Half of the population was younger than 19.4 years; 41.0% were children under 15 and 2.5% were 65 or older. The broad-based, expansive shape of the pyramid points to high fertility and strong population growth.
Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.
The fertility rate of Yemen was 4.59 births per woman in 2023, above the 2.1 needed to replace each generation.
Source: World Bank World Development Indicators, latest available year.
A child born there in 2023 could expect to live 69.3 years on average (71.4 years for girls, 67.2 for boys).
Source: World Bank World Development Indicators, latest available year.
357,448 immigrants live in Yemen, 0.9% of the population.
| Somalia | 285,211 |
| Sudan | 27,455 |
| Ethiopia | 16,283 |
| Iraq | 10,139 |
| Egypt | 7,857 |
2,480,734 people born in Yemen live in other countries.
| Saudi Arabia | 1,999,619 |
| United Arab Emirates | 192,423 |
| Kuwait | 75,513 |
| Jordan | 38,858 |
| Qatar | 37,285 |
Source: United Nations International Migrant Stock 2024.
| Country | Population | Median age | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yemen | 41,773,878 | 19.4 | |
| Iraq | 47,020,774 | 21.9 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 34,566,328 | 30.6 | |
| Syrian Arab Republic | 25,620,427 | 24.3 | |
| Jordan | 11,520,685 | 25.7 |





